Game apparatus



(No Model.)

1v1. A. GREENE. GAMB APPARATUS.

Patented Deo. 16, 1890.

fm1/e 7127/07* UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARY A. GREENE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

GAME APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 442,618, dated December 16, 1890. Application led August 13, 1890. Serial No. 361,943. (VNO model.)

T0 @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARY A. GREENE, of the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new Table-Game; and the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of the specification, in which- Figure l is a front elevation of the entire apparatus; Fig. 2, a plan view of the same; Fig. 3, a view of the perforated ball or sphere.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The component parts of Fig. 1 are the 'base or stand A, the shaft B, the table or plane C, the knob D, the ball d, (also represented in the drawings at Fig. 3,) the chain f, and the arrow k. The shaft B is inserted into the base A through the square socket a, as seen in Fig. l. The star-shaped table or plane C is attached to the shaft B by means of the knob D passing through the perforation b and entering the rounded socket c in shaft B, thus allowing the table to revolve. The balls d d are suspended from the pointsc c of the table C, as seen in Figs. 1 and 2, by the chains ff, which pass through an opening near the end of the points e e, and are secured on the top of the table by small rings g g or other means.

The ball d (also represented by Fig. 3) is composed of three bands of thin wood or some light metal, as tin or brass, the bands intersecting each other and united by a rivet t' c' or otherwise, as seen in Fig. 3. On one of the intersections is placed a screw-ring j, used to attach the ball d to hook 7.5 at the end of the chainf, as shown in Fig. 1.

The aim of the player is to detach the ball d from the hook la by means of the arrow or dart K, Fig. 1, the arrow to be aimed at and gently thrown through the perforations, and not deliberately placed there. The arrow, if suspended only from an edge of one of the bands, as will often occur, does not entitle the player to remove the ball from its chain. It is only when the arrow penetrates and re.- mains in a perpendicular, horizontal, or oblique posit-ion he may remove the ball from the hook and proceed in like manner to remove the remaining balls.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A perforated and detachable ball, disk, or other object hanging from ahook attached to a pendent chain.

2. In a game apparatus, the combination, with a chain suspended from a table and having a hook attached to the free end thereof, of a light perforated object detachabl y hung on said hook, all substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

In a gaine apparatus, the combination of the stand, table, chain, and perforated ball, all connected together to form a single device, substantially as described,and all capable of being readily detached for the purpose of packing in a small compass, as set forth.

MARY A. GREENE.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL S. PRICE, JARvIs MASON. 

